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As leaders from around the world gathered in New York City for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, President Obama flew to New York for a different reason: to impress the ladies of “The View.”
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10/4/12
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As Americans came together to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, we once again became the victims of a senseless attack, this time overseas.
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9/20/12
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Last March, a 9.0-magnitude earthquake rattled the Pacific Ocean, unleashing a tsunami that inundated coastal areas of Japan.
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2/23/12
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Italian physicist Enrico Fermi fired up the world’s first nuclear reactor on Dec. 2, 1942, in a squash court beneath Alonzo Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. Fermi achieved what scientists call “criticality” –– a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction –– at 3:52 p.m. His graphite-pile reactor, dubbed Chicago Pile-One, ran for 28 minutes and produced enough energy to power a flashlight.
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10/20/11
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The magnitude of the tsunami disaster in Japan trivializes anything on our news radar. The loss of so many fellow human beings in such a horrific, unpredictable tragedy simply blots out the sun.
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Randi Kreiss
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3/24/11
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Who knew? New York City sits dead center atop an active earthquake zone. No, not as active as California’s infamous –– and hyperactive –– quake zone. Nonetheless, we have gotten our share of big quakes in the past 300 years.
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Scott Brinton
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3/24/11
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A good portion of last week’s news cycle focused on the rise of school bullies. Tragically, two young girls, including a Suffolk County teen, took their own lives after being pushed to the edge by bullies.
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Al D'Amato
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4/21/10
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County Executive Ed Mangano’s aides, in sharp business suits, suddenly appeared out of side doors, carrying folding stands, maps and charts, which they hurriedly set up in the center of the Nassau County Executive and Legislative Building’s ornate press room. Then came the big yellow stoplight.
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Scott Brinton
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3/18/10
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In 2008, then presidential candidate Barack Obama supported “clean coal” technology as a means of powering America, much to the chagrin of many environmentalists. Shocked, shocked, they were.
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Scott Brinton
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2/25/10
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